The gift : creativity and the artist in the modern world, Lewis Hyde

The Resource The gift : creativity and the artist in the modern world, Lewis Hyde

The gift : creativity and the artist in the modern world, Lewis Hyde

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"Originally published as The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property" -- title page verso

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p.[387]-391) and index

Contents

I. A theory of gifts. Some food we could not eat ; The bones of the dead ; The labor of gratitude ; The bond ; The gift community ; A female property ; Usury : a history of gift exchange -- II. Two experiments in gift aesthetics. The commerce of the creative spirit ; A draft of Whitman ; Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money -- Conclusion -- On being good ancestors

"Originally published as The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property" -- title page verso

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p.[387]-391) and index

Contents

I. A theory of gifts. Some food we could not eat ; The bones of the dead ; The labor of gratitude ; The bond ; The gift community ; A female property ; Usury : a history of gift exchange -- II. Two experiments in gift aesthetics. The commerce of the creative spirit ; A draft of Whitman ; Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money -- Conclusion -- On being good ancestors